September 11, 2024

Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl. The robot’s versatility is due to a novel design based on kirigami, a cousin of origami, in which slices in the material enable it to fold, expand and locomote. The team’s paper, “Electronically Configurable Microscopic Metasheet Robots,” published Sept. 11 in

Listen to this article Nuro is moving beyond goods delivery and into transporting people with its autonomous technology. | Source: Nuro Nuro Inc. today announced the expansion of its business model to include licensing its advanced AI-based autonomy platform, the Nuro Driver, to automotive OEMs and mobility providers. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it intends for the Nuro Driver to eventually enable self-driving passenger vehicles in addition to goods delivery. The company said this

Listen to this article The Digit humanoid could work in distribution, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, and third-party logistics. | Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics Inc. this week announced a partnership with Ricoh USA Inc., a global service delivery organization. The company said Ricoh will help it expand its customer-support capabilities throughout North America, better preparing it for larger deployments of its bipedal mobile manipulation robot, Digit.  The agreement extends Agility’s support system through Ricoh’s Service

With maps of the connections between neurons and artificial intelligence methods, researchers can now do what they never thought possible: predict the activity of individual neurons without making a single measurement in a living brain. For decades, neuroscientists have spent countless hours in the lab painstakingly measuring the activity of neurons in living animals to tease out how the brain enables behavior. These experiments have yielded groundbreaking insights into how the brain works, but they